I grew up in Ft Lauderdale, I used to hear stories of people finding gold on the beach after heavy weather at least once a year. In one of my places of employment, a customer was wearing what I immediately recognized as a gold dubloon around his neck on a chain. I asked him if it was real. Not only was it real, he fished it out of the bottom of the ocean. He worked on a salvage vessel that specialized in hunting sunken pirate ships and other vessels from by gone eras. I was seriously envious, and I do not normally envy peoples posessions.